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"Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception."
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"Advertising is legalized lying."
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"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
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"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
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"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."
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"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."
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"An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems."
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"If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have."
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"The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising."
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"Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity."
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"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
Travel
"When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!"
Writing
"I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s."
Love
"I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not."
Poetry
"Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception."
Advertising
"It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling."
Travel
"Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers."
Man
"Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things."
War
"I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature."
Family
"It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in."
Humor
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